Help with Designing or Debugging CORBA Applications

How to add CORBA GIOP/IIOP decoding capabilities to an open-source protocol analyzer.

Conclusion

The aim of this article was to introduce you to generating
CORBA GIOP/IIOP plugins for Ethereal using the new GIOP API
recently implemented and also, to show how to generate compilable
plugins (using idl2eth) for your project with a minimum amount of
work.

We will continue developing the CORBA side of things within
the Ethereal Project to improve areas such as operation, name
collision and FRAGMENT handling.

Hopefully readers will find these enhancements to a great
open-source project as useful as I did.

I would like to acknowledge the help and assistance of the
following people: Lalin Sourjah (Manager, BSS, ASO Americas) for
fostering a creative work environment for us at Ericsson Inc.,
Trevor Shepherd (Senior Software Engineer, Ericsson Inc.) for
assistance with GIOP API development, Gerald Combs (original
Ethereal author) and all of the Ethereal developers for their
support and constructive feedback. It was most welcome.

Frank C. Singleton
(VK3FCS/KM5WS) works for Ericsson Inc., based in Richardson, Texas.
His main roles are GSM software verification and troubleshooting.
He is one of the founding members of hamlib
(sourceforge.net/projects/hamlib).
When not hacking, he usually is found making furniture in his
workshop.

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